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Sep
16
2016

Angel View at Warsaw Autumn

Posted By Lars Højberg/
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Date: Sep 16, 2016
Time: 22.30
Place: Warsaw Autumn, Poland

SCENATET takes part in the renowned international festival of contemporary music, Warsaw Autumn 2016. SCENATET will perform Angel View, an assemblage of urban and musical debris, somewhere between a wordless live radio play, enacted film soundtrack and instrumental theatre, composed by Juliana Hodkinson.

Chiseling cement, falling debris, scraping cutlery, breaking glass, criss-crossing cables, squealing tram-wheels, an upturned bicycle, a grid of cables, a travel souvenir, a shop window, a revolving carousel, a brace of monkeys, a wall under siege, a dining table laid for an ancestral dinner – it is a sonic bazaar. Made up of more than 20 parts, each designed to overlap, the work’s architecture is full of non-sequiturs and arbitrary cross-relations between imagined streets intersecting and running parallel, reflecting the surrealism of everyday life described in Walter Benjamin’s Einbahnstrasse and still present in the contemporary dilemmas and opportunities of Berlin today.

All this is heard as if from an aerial perspective, perhaps the Victory Column where angels sit in Wings of Desire, from where Berlin below is observed as a series of tragedies.

Angel View is commissioned by SCENATET with support of The Danish Arts Foundation, SPOR Festival and Berliner Festspiele / MaerzMusik and was premiered at Maerz Musik 2014.

Learn more about Warsaw Autumn here.

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